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for gas, once again becoming the new normal. what's behind that sharp price hike? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm candy crowley, you are in "the situation room." an alleged plot for a suicide bomb attack on the u.s. capitol busted today in an undercover operation. officials say a moroccan man is under arrest after accepting a vest he believed was filled with explosives. cnn's brian todd is at the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. what's the latest there? >> reporter: candy, we're told the suspect has arrived at this federal district court in alexandria, virginia, for a court appea...

that's more than were killed by hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, and floods combined. cnn meteorologist chad meyers joins us. it's more than the heat. >> it's more than humidity. if you set your steam roam at a gym at 105. that feels like 200 degrees. even though it's 105, it feels so much hotter because your body cannot perspire, and it cannot cool itself down. a sauna is 160 or 170, but it feels cooler because the air is dry. now, this is a 10-year average, 170 people die of heat-related deaths per year, compared to 62 in tornados, and lightning, 44, and flooding 74. i know people...

>> so it's sort of like electricity systems, maybe finding new sources of electricity as well. >> making power grids smarter, stronger, more able to handle the increase in peak demand. we have superhot delays. the peak logos up and you want to boost the system through alternate sources of energy and strengthening it overall, more transmission lines. >> something as simple as the way water's brought into communities, aqueducts, new piping that will make a big difference? >> new york, for example, a climate change adaptation task force in place and one specific example, a waste water treatment f...

Room. we needed cars but we have enough so that it's enough for our peak demand. people said decrease the number of cars owned and on the peak days, maybe two days a month, the employee could drive their own car and we reimburse them. >> neil: did anyone say increase my tax to say make sure -- >> i don't increase taxes, i try to decrease taxes. i asked for efficiency. this is the accountability project and i offered to give a palladium coin to the winner. we narrowed it down to four out of a thousand ideas. we're at mt.gov, the pink piggy bank, and vote on the best idea. >> neil: that will pis...